Ammu: TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 Indian Homecooking to Nourish Your Soul

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The Times Cookbook of the Year 2022 *'Asma Khan... is one of the most articulate, powerful voices in the world of food, and this book is her masterpiece...More than a cookbook, this is a meditation on the power of food to nourish and heal.' - Bee Wilson, The Times'An entrancing book' - Nigella LawsonIndian family food with heart - the mouthwatering new cookbook from Asma Khan, founder of the iconic Darjeeling ExpressThis book is a joyful celebration of the universal power of food to restore, and to comfort.

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Whisk the yoghurt so that it becomes smooth. gently stir in the strips of spinach and then add the reserved spinach liquid. Then add the salt, chilli powder and ground cumin seeds. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed. If you have already submitted another request to index a book or magazine yourself, please do not make any additional requests until you have indexed and submitted that book or magazine. Paying homage to Khan’s Calcutta childhood, this cookbook takes readers on the personal food journey of the chef and restaurateur … Khan’s enchanting memories and stories make her tasty recipes come to life … Fans of Khan will enjoy this glimpse at her culinary inspiration and will feel the loving embrace that food symbolized during her childhood. The cookbook also serves as a great introduction to Indian cuisine and to Khan, as to cook from this book is to know her.”On the one hand, these are supposed to be family recipes, not restaurant recipes, so it doesn't make sense to critique it in the same way. These recipes are less balanced than I'd expect from a restaurant like Darjeeling Express, but... maybe that's the point?

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This book is a joyful celebration of memories of food, and its power to heal, restore, and comfort. It includes her ammu's comfort food from childhood, the recipes with which she was taught to cook, celebratory food for special occasions, and slow-cooked recipes passed through the generations of her family. A heart-warming cookbook of comforting aromatic Indian flavours, from Asma Khan of Darjeeling Express and Netflix fame I bumped it up one star due to the one star review left by someone because of the amount of recipes containing meat and the simplicity of other recipes, seriously?! I might note that all the recipes I copied are vegetarian. Who’s the author? Asma Khan is an award-winning chef and food writer. Asma started a supper club from her home in 2012, and since then she has been revolutionising the UK food scene launching a pop-up restaurant in Soho in 2015 and the acclaimed eatery, Darjeeling Express, in 2017. She is famous for her home-style Indian food and her all-female team. I had to make some adjustments (no onions) due to current dietary restrictions, but I thought this was incredibly delicious. There was just the right amount of fenugreek to perfume but not overwhelm the dish. I used ground byadgi chile and whole sannam chiles and I thought the heat level was perfect.It is interesting to read that Khan’s mother, Ammu, was herself a pioneer in challenging the patriarchal restrictions by which women continue to be constrained. She founded a food business in India and Khan is the heir to her recipes. Asma has furthered her mother’s legacy and, through food, has worked to develop how women are thought about whether in domestic or professional kitchens. The book itself contains a variety of recipes that Asma loved from her childhood and she evocatively describes her memories of each dish so as to underscore its importance in her personal development whether as a child in Kolkata, Hyderabad and Madras, or a student at Cambridge University. The recipes traverse a number of regions and bring to the table a variety of dishes with influences from Bengali, Afghan, Mughlai and Turkish cuisines.